Eastpointe police said a 91-year-old man shot a would-be robber in the parking lot of a Rite Aid pharmacy Monday morning.
According to WJBK, the 91-year-old had pulled into the pharmacy’s parking lot around 10:15 a.m. Monday and said he began to feel uneasy when the man – later identified as Richard Ashford – walked up to him, acting erratically.
The 91-year-old warned Ashford that he had a concealed pistol license, and Ashford walked away.
When the man got out of his car to enter the pharmacy, however, Ashford confronted him again, pulling out an “unknown object” and pointing it at him, police said. The 91-year-old drew his gun and fired, hitting Ashford in the neck.
Ashford fled the scene despite his wound, but police later captured him and took him to a local hospital for treatment.
Authorities charged Ashford with felonious assault.
“This elderly man’s self-defense is an entirely appropriate use of force,” Prosecutor Eric Smith said. “Facing imminent assault, he announced that he was armed, made attempts to withdraw, warned again that he held a weapon, and fired only when completely necessary.”
Apparently there is a severe stray dog problem ravaging some parts of India, so bad that the people are losing their lives as a result of their ferocious wolf like attacks.
Authorities in Indian Kashmir have poisoned more than 1,200 dogs over the past two weeks after complaints that packs of strays were biting people and chasing vehicles.
According to The Mirror:
The mother, 65, named locally only as Siluvamma, was visiting a beach in Kerala, south India, when the attack took place.
Her son, Selvaraj, went out to look for her and after coming across the dogs managed to flee into the sea.
Since the incident, locals have staged a protest urging authorities to do more to stop stray dog attacks, which have become an increasing concern in the area.
Selvaraj later gave a harrowing account of the incident to local reporters.
He said: “My mother went to the beach at night.
“As she did not return, I went out searching for her.
“What I saw was shocking. She was being attacked by over 100 stray dogs. She was bleeding all over the body.”
Mourning relatives have been pictured outside the family home of the victim since the dog attack.
When her son was able to return to her body, she had her limbs torn off by the animals, The Hindu newspaper reports.
There has been a reported increase in dog attacks in the area over the past few years.
Local politicians have discussed how to tackle the issue, but locals have grown impatient at their lack of action.
One neighbour added: “We have lost all our patience as the authorities are hanging on to some obscure law which says dogs cannot be eliminated.
“Are we inferior to these dogs?”
Wow! Where in the hell are all of those dogs coming from? I guess if we didn’t have animal control here in the States, we might have the same problem. Crazy!
Elizabeth Smart, who was kidnapped from her bedroom at age 14 and held captive for nine months, is speaking out against pornography – saying porn made her captor rape her even more than before.
According to KTLA:
The video, produced by the anti-porn group “Fight the New Drug,” features Smart retelling the story of her ordeal at the hands of homeless street preacher Brian David Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee. Smart describes being raped repeatedly, and Mitchell showing her hardcore pornography.
“I remember he pulled out this magazine full of hardcore pornography and I remember he would just sit and look at it and stare at it,” she recalls in the video. “He’d just talk about these women and then when he was done, he would turn and he would look at me and be like, ‘Now, we’re going to to do this.’ It just led to him raping me more, more than he already did, which was a lot.”
Smart blames pornography for contributing to Mitchell’s attacks on her.
“Looking at pornography wasn’t enough for him. Having sex with his wife after looking at pornography, it wasn’t enough for him. And then it led him to finally going out and kidnapping me. He just always wanted more,” she said on the video. “I can’t say that he would not have gone out and kidnapped me had he not looked at pornography. All I know is that pornography made my living hell worse.”
Elizabeth Smart, who was kidnapped from her bedroom at age 14 and held captive for nine months, is speaking out against pornography – saying porn made her captor rape her even more than before.
The video, produced by the anti-porn group “Fight the New Drug,” features Smart retelling the story of her ordeal at the hands of homeless street preacher Brian David Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee. Smart describes being raped repeatedly, and Mitchell showing her hardcore pornography.
“It just led to him raping me more, more than he already did, which was a lot.”
“I remember he pulled out this magazine full of hardcore pornography and I remember he would just sit and look at it and stare at it,” she recalls in the video. “He’d just talk about these women and then when he was done, he would turn and he would look at me and be like, ‘Now, we’re going to to do this.’ It just led to him raping me more, more than he already did, which was a lot.”
“Looking at pornography wasn’t enough for him. Having sex with his wife after looking at pornography, it wasn’t enough for him. And then it led him to finally going out and kidnapping me. He just always wanted more,” she said on the video. “I can’t say that he would not have gone out and kidnapped me had he not looked at pornography. All I know is that pornography made my living hell worse.”
Smart was abducted from her bedroom in 2002 at knifepoint by Mitchell, a homeless street preacher who had sought to make her one of his “wives.” She was held captive for nine months until being spotted walking down State Street in the company of Mitchell and Barzee.
The video features clips from the search for Smart as she describes how she has moved on and become an advocate for abuse victims and an opponent of pornography.
Mitchell is serving a life sentence in federal prison for his role in the kidnapping. Barzee is serving a prison term in the Utah State Prison with a parole hearing scheduled for 2018. In a 2013 interview with FOX 13, Elizabeth Smart said she had forgiven both of them for what they did to her.
The Utah State Legislature earlier this year passed a resolution declaring pornography a “public health crisis.”
What a sick bastard. Hopefully he’s getting everything he took from this young girl taken from him in PRISON! Join the discussion.
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